How Black Colleges Are Taking Tech’s Diversity Issue Into Their Own Hands

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Leslie Tita’s tone grows oddly anxious as he curls into the back of a Lyft, and speeds away from Howard University. Tita is a successful entrepreneur who owns a co-working space for entrepreneurs from Africa. He’s strikingly tall and sturdily built, with long fine dreadlocks and an infectious grin, and doesn’t seem the type to be worried about anything. But ask him about the “pipeline problem” in tech — the notion that tech companies don’t hire enough people of color because there is not enough available talent — and you’ll see his brow furrow. — This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be …

Leslie Tita’s tone grows oddly anxious as he curls into the back of a Lyft, and speeds away from Howard University. Tita is a successful entrepreneur who owns a co-working space for entrepreneurs from Africa. He’s strikingly tall and sturdily built, with long fine dreadlocks and an infectious grin, and doesn’t seem the type to be worried about anything. But ask him about the “pipeline problem” in tech — the notion that tech companies don’t hire enough people of color because there is not enough available talent — and you’ll see his brow furrow.

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How Black Colleges Are Taking Tech’s Diversity Issue Into Their Own Hands